Næ simul pudere quod non oportet cperit; quod oportet non pudebit. As soon as she (woman) begins to be ashamed of what she ought not, she will not be ashamed of what she ought. LivyAnnales. XXXIV. 4.

We live in an atmosphere of shame. We are ashamed of everything that is real about us; ashamed of ourselves, of our relatives, of our incomes, of our accents, of our opinion, of our experience, just as we are ashamed of our naked skins. Bernard ShawMan and Superman. Act I.